I mean, I get the "new" Microsoft. And I get that this is mostly a street-cred move by them, and they'll try to not mess it up by interfering with it. But still. That's now. What happens when the next shake-up comes and there's a push by the accountants to make money off everything, that's the important bit.
It's like Atlassian taking over Trello. They'll mess it up, it's just a matter of when not if.
Just to clarify here. It's only been owned by Microsoft for about a year now.
Before that they were their own company. And as far as I know, the source was never OSS to begin with. Microsoft didn't swoop in and lock it down. It was already like that.
In case anybody wondered if Github was closed-source because of Microsoft.
I mean, I get the "new" Microsoft. And I get that this is mostly a street-cred move by them, and they'll try to not mess it up by interfering with it. But still. That's now. What happens when the next shake-up comes and there's a push by the accountants to make money off everything, that's the important bit.
It's like Atlassian taking over Trello. They'll mess it up, it's just a matter of when not if.